OUR CATALOG
Don't Fence Me In
A film by Nandini Sikand
1998 | 55 minutes | Color | DVD | Order No. 00662
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
"'Don't Fence Me In' is a rich and beautiful film and an exquisite and loving tribute of a daughter to her mother."
" A cinematic tapestry that is part lyrical, part impressionistic, wholly cinematic."
"The film captures the triumphs, tragedies and the choices of an individual set against a larger social and political landscape."
"A lyrical tribute by the filmmaker to her poet mother. Weaves together scenes shot on location, super-8 movies made 30 years ago, black and white photographs, and splendidly preserved letter to evoke the story of mother Krishna, her choices and personal battles."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Philafilm/Philadelphia International Film Festival, Best Super 8mm
- Chingari Film Festival, University of Wisconsin
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Nandini is Assistant Professor of an interdisciplinary film and media studies program at Lafayette College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Sikand’s documentary and experimental films have screened and won awards at over 100 domestic and international film festivals. Her work has aired on PBS and has been awarded grants from The Jerome Foundation, the Center for Asian American Media, and she is two-time awardee of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Her films include: The Bhangra Wrap (1995), Don't Fence Me In (1998), Amazonia (2001), In Whose Name? (2004), Soma Girls (2009), and Cranes of Hope (2011). She also produced the documentary Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer (2001). In television, she has worked as a producer and director on projects for Channel Four: UK, Ovation: the Arts Network, HBO, Oxygen, and The History Channel. She served on the board of directors of Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist media distribution organization from 1997-2006. She was on the Fulbright IIE National Selection committee for film and video for 2008-2011.
Nandini choreographs and performs regularly with her neo-classical Odissi dance company, Sakshi Productions. Her dance work has been funded by LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), the Asian American Arts Alliance and Joyce Soho and combines the use of film imagery, live music and elements unique to Indian theatre and performance. She is also the Associate Director/Choreographer of Harmattan Theater a performance group committed to an environmentally and socially-engaged theater.
She was recently awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) postdoctoral fellowship towards her book project, Bodies, Bells and Borders: Choreographing a New Odissi Tradition. (8/14)
Subject Areas
RELATED LINKS
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A Review from Indian Express
A review entitled "Set Me Free" by Riyad Wadia that discusses "Don't Fence Me In"
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